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The origin
of Scotch tape
ByL. M. BOYD
A certain auto painter didn’t much care for the newly
invented masking tape he’d just bought from the 3M
Company. He claimed it wasn’t completely covered with
adhesive, so tended to fall off the cars. He told a 3M
representative: “Take this tape back to those Scotch
bosses of yours and tell them to put adhesive all over the
tape, not just on the edges.” It’s said that remark led not
only to the invention but to the naming of Scotch tape.
Those tasters who test cookies are required to sit in
separate booths so they won’t be influenced by the oooh’s,
aaah’s and yechhh’s of the other tasters.
Why do lawyers refer to a spoken contract as a “verbal
agreement” when in fact a verbal agreement can be
either spoken or written?
The census rolls list a woman named Wava White Flagg
and a man named Be Careful McGee.
Rats hate tomatoes.
FLAMENCO
Q. “Why are the Spanish ‘Flamenco’ dancers so
called?”
A. Spain’s King Charles V imported some snazzy tex
tiles from Flanders. These delighted the Spanish dancers
who made costumes out of them. Flamenco, from the
Flemish, is an adjective for Flanders.
Q. “Will bet you a quarter on the comer, Louie, you
can’t name the three horses of Roy Rogers, Hopalong
Cassidy and Gene Autry.”
A. Pay up, sir. Roy’s was Trigger. Hopalong’s Topper.
Gene’s Champion. Now what was Dale Evans’ horse? Say
Buttermilk.
Q. “The infamous Kohinoor diamond supposedly brings
bad luck to everybody who owns it, no?”
A. To every male owner, supposedly, but not to any
female.
Another little known fact is the voice of TV’s Charlie
Tuna is that of actor Herschel Bernardi
L. M. Boyd, Box 681, Weatherford, TX 76086
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48 Hack
51 Auspices
55 Month (abbr)
56 Anxiety (Ger.)
60 Grampus
61 Definite
article
62 Chisel
63 Poverty-war
agency (abbr)
64 Mayday signal
65 Communion
table
66 Compass
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2 Jug
3 Abominable
snowman
4 Desert plants
5 Individual
6 Conjunction
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7 Pedal digit
8 Coelenterate
9 Young horse
10 Behold (Lat.)
11 Secondhand
ACROSS
1 Odd
4 Refined
9 Fire (Fr.)
12 Be in debt
13 Rile
14 Military
school (abbr)
15 Allow
16 Gave up
17 Hole-in-one
18 Mine passage
20 Governed
22 House fuel
24 Aviation
agency (abbr)
25 Turkish title
28 Bird
30 Hum
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35 Price
36 Gold (Sp |
37 Be situated
38 Mao
Tung
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40 Snow coaster
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47 Wet
48 Beds
49 Eight (Sp.)
50 American
Indians
52 Sticky
substances
53 Makes mad
54 Flat-bottomed
boat
57 Hockey
league (abbr.)
58 Channel
59 Saratoga
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23 Tossed
24 Sheep's coat
25 Electric fish
26 Send off
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31 Man's genus
32 Blue flag
33 Surf roar
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Today
By The Associated Press
Today is Thursday, Oct. 20,
the 293rd day of 1977. There are
72 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On this date in 1918, Germany
accepted Allied terms to end
World War I and ordered Ger
nan submarines to their home
bases.
On this date:
In 1632, the English architect,
Sir Christopher Wren, was bom
in Wiltshire, England.
In 1740, Maria Theresa be
came ruler of Austria, Hungary
and Bohemia.
In 1941, during World War 11,
a state of siege was declared in
Moscow.
In 1945, Arab nations formed
a league and warned that crea
tion of a Jewish state in the
Middle East could lead to war.
In 1964, former President
Herbert Hoover died in New
York at the age of 90.
In 1968, Jacqueline Kennedy
and Aristotle Onassis were
married on his private island,
Skorpios, in the lonian Sea.
Ten years ago: An all-white
jury convicted deputy sheriff
Cecil Price and Ku Klux Klan
leader Sam Bowers on a federal
conspiracy charge growing out
of the 1964 murders of three
young civil rights workers in
Mississippi.
Five years ago: Six Ameri
cans shared in Nobel Prize
awards for physics and chem
istry.
Q&A
1. The world’s second larg
est country in area is (a)
USA (b) USSR (c) Canada
2. The Continental Revolu
tionary War general who
captured Stony Point, N.Y..,
was (a) John Wayne (b)
’Mad" Anthony Wayne (c)
Benedict Arnold
3. Marinus I was a (a) U.S.
unmanned space satellite
(b) ninth-century Pope of
Rome (c) ship involved in
the 1956 sinking of the An
drea Doria
ANSWERS:
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Thoughts
And which of you by being
anxious can add a cubit to
his span of life? If then you
are not able to do as small a
thing as that, why are you
anxious about the rest?-
Luke 12:25,26
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Griffin Daily News Thursday, October 20,1977
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Viewpoint
The Griffin Daily News’ policy is to be fair
to everyone. The editor’s opinions are
confined to this page, and its columns are
This is more basic
Gordon College at Barnesville has 1,316
students this fall compared to 550 when it
became a unit of the University System in
1972. The increase over last fall is 9.4
percent
This shows the need of a University
System college in this area.
Again this year Spalding County leads
all the rest in number of students at
Gordon with 354.
This shows Spalding’s need for such a
college.
Halloween safety tricks
Some simple costume decorating tricks
can do a lot to help protect children from
accidential injury on Halloween, says the
Georgia Optometric Association.
The key is for parents to make costumes
that will be seen easily by driving and that
will not block the child’s view of traffic,
steps, curbs and other hazards.
"Adding retro-reflective material to a
costume is the easiest and best way to
increase its visibility to safe levels,” said
Dr. T. Joel Byars, President of the op
tometric organization.
According to optometric studies retro
reflective material on shoes and clothing
makes pedestrians safely visible to drivers
even at speeds of 70 and 80 m.p.h. Nothing
else, not even white clothing, can top it.
Retro-reflective material can be pur-
My Answer
Friends no longer
DEAR DR. GRAHAM: I have just
turned my life over to Christ, and I want to
live for Him. However, all my old friends
have turned against me and make fun of
me now. This pressure is hard to resist,
and I don’t know what to do.-Mr. T.
DEAR MR. T.: I know this is a difficult
time for you, but I am convinced God is'
able to help you, and He will reward you
for your faithfulness. You should not be
surprised at the resistance of some of your
old friends—your new way of life probably
makes them feel guilty about their own
way of living. The Christian “does not live
the rest of his earthly life for evil human
desires, but rather for the will of God. For
you have snent enough time in the past
BiUy
Graham
Fairness to all
Monthly
report
Here is your monthly report as of the
middle of the month on government press
agents, mail from Uncle Sam’s various
boards, bureaus, commissions, and in
dividuals mailed at your expense unasked,
unwanted and unused to the Griffin Daily
News:
Total this time 75 compared to 97 last
time.
Progress? It has happened before then
shot up again.
open to every subscriber. Letters to the
editor are published every Wednesday.
Address letters to P.O. Box M, 30224.
Also it illustrates anew the big mistake
.Spalding made when it voted against
having the college here. That is water over
the dam and cannot be rectified, but
another school vote is coming up in
Spalding next month.
It is more basic than the college vote
because it will set standards for
elementary and high schools and they are
more basic than colleges.
Certainly there is no need to keep hashing
over old mistakes, nor is there need to
make new ones.
chased in iron-on, sew-on and stick-on
varieties in most hardware and depart
ment stores. It should be appUed to front,
sides and back of the costume and in
corporated into the costume design.
“The other side of HaUoween safety,”
Dr. Byars said, “is to throw away those
masks and use non-allergic makeup in
stead. Masks can slip out of place or have
eye holes so small they restrict a child’s
view.
He cautioned that makeup should be
applied carefully by adults to keep
makeup particles and applicators out of
the child’s eyes.
Dr. Byars also reminded parents to have
their child’s eyes examined regularly.
“Poor vision can be a great handicap not
only at HaUoween but throughout the
year,” he said.
doing what pagans choose to do. . .They
think it strange that you do not plunge with
them into the same flood of dissipation,
and they heap abuse on you” (I Peter 4:2-
4), New International Version).
Let me suggest 3 things. First, you
should make a definite decision in your
own mind and heart that you are not going
to go back to your old way of Uving. Satan
will tempt you and pressure you in every
way he he can, but “Resist the devU, and
he will flee from you” (James 4:7).
Second, pray that God will lead you to a
new group of Christian friends. Fellowship
is one of the greatest gifts God gives us.
Seek a church where Christ is preached,
and begin to establish new friendships with
people who can help you and strengthen
you.
Finally, pray for your old friends and
seek ways to witness to them. They need
Christ, and many of them are probably
miserable down inside but won’t admit it
They have seen Christ bring new meaning
and happiness to your life, and you may
well be the person God will use to bring
them to Himself.
Gone are the
days when •••
By BILL KNIGHT
Executive Editor
Gone are the days when . . .
T-shirts were men’s undershirts and not message
boards.. .high test gasoline was 19 cents a gallon.. .and a
cold Coke was a nickel.
Students rode bikes to school or walked and there was
no such thing as a parking space shortage for cars on
campus.. .there always was plenty of room in the bicycle
rack.. .there was a little and big recess every day.. .And
most of the girls in high school wore white saddle oxfords.
. .The big football players used to beat up on the little guys
who didn’t contribute a quarter to buy flowers for home
game sponsors.. .There was an ink well in every school
desk and ball point pens were unknown.
FRESH MULLET
A movie ticket was 9 cents if you were under 12 and
there were 3 new picture shows each week.. .Fresh mullet
fish went 4 pounds for a quarter (25 cents) on Saturday
afternoon on North hill street.. .A 24-pound sack of flour
and 4 pounds of lard were standard in every grocery or
der. . .Butter beans, peas turnip greens and cornbread
which are today’s soul food were standard for noon meals
and housewives bought live chickens at the grocery store,
took them home and “dressed” them for cooking Sunday
dinner. . .And most folks went to church on Sunday.
When a grocery store owner in Experiment closed up
for the afternoon to go and catch for the Dundee baseball
team. . .
When a trip to Atlanta in a car was an all day affair and
on the train something special.. .When every automobile
had a jack and a 15-cent can of patching for fixing flat
tires. . .
DIME SHOE SHINE
Men got their shoes shined at a barber shop on Saturday
afternoon for a dime and opted their weekday overalls on
Sunday for their only suit with a white handkerchief in the
coat pocket.. .Veils on women’s hats were quite stylish..
.And Easter egg hunts were special.. The stands at old
Pimiento baseball park would be packed on a Fourth of
July afternoon when the home team played. . .
When everyone marched in the parade downtown on
Confederate Memorial Day and wore white and some of
the women cried when men in uniform fired shots over the
graves at the Confederate cemetery. ..
A youngster could get a sack full of silver bells
(chocolate candy) for a nickel and watermelons were 10
cents each at the peak of the season.. .And everyone ate at
least one Elberta peach during the summer. . .
When men who owned a railroad watch showed it off
when they ceremoniously pulled it out of a watch pocket
and checked the time. . .
And neighbors invited neighbors to share a chittlin*
supper when hog killing time came.. .And some fanners
made a little sorgham syrup for the cold winter days
ahead. . .
When lots of folks waited until Christmas eve to do all
their shopping. . .
BLACK MARIA
When a laundry truck converted into a Black Maria
used to make frequent runs on Saturday afternoon to haul
the drunks to city jail. . .
Some folks lowered milk in a metal container into a well
to keep it cool.. .And the ice man made his rounds daily in
a horse-drawn wagon.. .When ice was 10 cents for a small
chunk and 25 cents for 50 pounds. . .And ice cream
freezers were hand cranked.
The elementary school principal usually was a woman
who struck fear into everyone’s hearts when she walked
on campus with a paddle.. .And the school library con
sisted of a complete set of Junior Encyclopedia Britanica
and you could look up almost anything in them. . .
Halloween carnivals were the one time of the year you
could yell inside the school building and not get spanked..
When graduating from high school was the biggest thing
in life (almost next to getting married) and the girls wore
white graduation gowns and the boys navy blue.. .
And every birthday party in the newspaper ended
with “. . .a good time was had by all.”
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